Note: I have been avoiding this article for a couple of weeks now, because whenever I start writing it, I get lost in a series of “just one more” click and I don’t recover from it until hours later. So, in order to finish this article I had to compose it offline and then add the rest of the missing pieces later because it is that addictive. Let that be a warning to all those who will watch any of the videos here.

Lotte is one of the biggest food and shopping groups in Japan. To promote their new Fit’s soft chewing gum, they decided to partner with Youtube in releasing a series of commercials that encourage people to participate in their dance contest.

What is it about?

The concept is fairly simple: Get yourself a really popular idol like say Nozomi Sasaki, pair off with another cute guy, say Takeru Satou, add a chubby tubby girl for comic relief and have them all dance to more addictive than crack musical tune. And just to make sure that it does go viral, create a dancing contest around the video and invite everyone to post their videos on Youtube and the one with the most views wins a 100 million Yen (about $10,000). The only rule is that you have to follow the choreography clearly illustrated on the website

After going through with my mother over the last two parts I left her for a week to try and experiment with what she learned and I was really proud of what she achieved. Never mind that she now checked the pictures of friends of friends of people I never heard of, but she was now curious about who is that girl that is commenting on my brother’s profile, and what are all those weird messages of psychics and farm animals that keep on showing up on her homepage. She also informed of a ‘new’ use that she has found for Facebook for she has ‘discovered’ that by clicking on events on the homepage she will be able to see and plan for everyone’s birthday and she was excited about learning that little tidbit on her own. While I could have delved deeper into Facebook explaining applications and games I choose to leave that for a different day and focus on taking her a bit outside of Facebook on this day, focusing our time on two things; Gmail and Skype.

In the first part we created a computer enviroment that requires little to no intervention by the user to get them from powering on their laptops to accessing their profile on Facebook. Using this setup my mother had more focus on what she needed to learn and deal with, sometimes we forgot how much a priori is required in order for us to navigate a website such as Facebook. Unless we break down the website into its smaller and simpler elements, the first time computer users will be presented with a very high learning curve and might be inclined to give up in frustration over how much they need to grasp before they are able to do anything with a computer.

Black Friday is a shopaholic's crack cocain, it's the one day that people don't need to make spurious reason for why they need to buy an item, they just do. The name comes from the accounting practice of marking off profits with black ink, and the Friday following Thanksgiving marked the first day that retailers traditionally went...

Every day, I come across a few hilarious status Facebook updates. Some of them are so funny, that I actually feel stupid laughing all by myself!
Therefore, I invite you to invite you to enjoy our third list of the 10 top funniest Facebook status updates.

Brokenhearted, drunk and fueled with jealousy after his girlfriend suddenly pulled the plug on their relationship, Joshua posted his ex-girlfriend's pictures on Facebook, for millions of Facebook users to see and was made legal history for being put in jail for doing so!

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